Honor 200 Pro Review: Premium Retro for Fans

Exalt 200 Pro sudden

Exalt launched its 200 Pro handset in June 2024, after a Chinese-singular takeoff in Can. The upper mid-ranger (or accessible flagship?) is revered at 800€/£700 for the 12/512 GB layout. The handset will not be obtainable in the US.

The handset comes through a substantial 6.78-inch elbowed OLED sport, a real triple-cam arrangement through a telephoto and also ultrawide cameras, and also is powered by a flagship-level Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 cpu.

Model and also sport

There is a feeling of dejà-vu as speedily as first observing the Exalt 200 Pro. It owns been a while given that I last saw a sub-$1000 handset through a elbowed sport. As well as the retro vibes lingered on the handset’s recommend, through a elbowed cam island.

Pros:

• Tenacious build.
• Scenic sport.
• Display protector from the studio.
• Fingerprint-proof recommend.

Downsides

• Camera island layout is not for every individual.

According to Exalt, the cam module was motivated by the crescents of Casa Milá from Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. The glass envelop owns a polymorphous carve from the underlying steel underpinning, which crescents to satisfy the glass forming an unusual framework. It possibly appearances well-constructed, however wasn’t selectively for my taste (from a self-admitted Gaudí fanboy…).

The rest of the recommend is rendered from glass, our contemplate gizmo came in through a black matte finishing which not singular appearances glamorous and also feels glamorous to the touch however also was unshackle from finger prints.

The elbowed recommend coating is mirrored in the front, not polymorphous every singular flagship handset from five years ago. While flat displays have won in the West, elbowed displays are still advanced in Asia, reportedly.

However I digress, the sport is a substantial and also shocking 6.78-inch AMOLED that not singular refreshes at 120 Hz however also is specced to reach 4000 nits. We couldn’t reach that luminances level, however owned no top priorities exploiting the Exalt 200 Pro outdoors.

To acquire that substantial locale, the resolution is an just as high 2700 x 1200 pixels, resulting in 437 DPI. As well as under the sport lies the fingerprint sensing gizmo, which massaged as supposed throughout our contemplate. On optimal rests a pill-carved notch which homes the double selfie arrangement.

The Exalt 200 Pro truly felt horribly glamorous on the hand and also its substantial sport didn’t expire result in a substantial handset thanks to the elbowed sport and also slim bezels. Switch posturing was also alright, and also on the entirety, the handset truly felt prefer a real flagship.

MagicOS still brings the EMUI legacy

The Exalt 200 Pro comes through MagicOS 8 on optimal of Android 14. The supplier assurances three Android upgrades and also 4 years of insurance coverage updates. It still brings the exact same on the entirety layout as its EMUI precursor, which feels a petite obsoleted in some places.

Pros

Downsides

• User interface layout feels obsoleted.
• Underwhelming modernize news of vista.

After a fresh place, we counted nine thirdly-party implementations, something that we truly felt did not measured up to through a exquisite handset. After modernizing those apps, the mechanism reported 31.28 GB of supplied storage discontinuity.

MagicOS 8 still feels prefer a correct EMUI scion, through its iOS-based navigation and also format launching to feel out of territory through Android, specifically after a couple of years correct into the Item You layout. Long-time Huawei and also Exalt individual, however, will feel at home exploiting MagicOS 8.

For more niceties on MagicOS 8, you can scrutinize Camila’s contemplate of the flagship Enchantment 6 Pro, and also more niceties on the AI features in this Enchantment AI hands-on. Overall, despite the obsoleted stare, exploiting the mechanism truly felt snappy, however some incongruities around the interface—including the default Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard—were distracting.

One confidential quibble was that the all-natural hosting posture rendered it delicately clunky to reach UI elements on the underpinning of the sport. Also gaining to for the territory pub while inputting compelled the hand to grab the handset in an unhitched way.

Flagship practicality from the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Powered by the fresh launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Exalt 200 Pro confers a flagship-level practicality that is basically indistinguishable from the 2024 crop of exquisite phones. The consumption of vibrant memory standards for storage discontinuity and also RAM is aided by the substantial chances on prearrangement.

Pros

• Winning practicality in day-to-day projects and also arcades.
• Winning thermal management

Downsides

• Mobile phone throttles down to strengthen fashionable.

Exalt seems to have made a choice for a more conservative masterstroke of the effective CPU, not sacrificing individual inspirations for the highest potential practicality as some challengers routinely carry out. Instead, on a ton longer heavier projects, the handset reduces the price to proceed to be clear of gaining also sunny.

The burden is identifiable on the 3D Mark Humdrum Checkup, in which the Exalt handset slumped its practicality to basically fifty percent by the expire of the test.

On a gaming-oriented handset that would unquestionably be a negative icon, however for a builder tailored to the basic public, prioritizing thermals was probably the much more outlined accord. We merely dream Exalt supplied a beefier warmth dissipation mechanism.

In testing, practicality in arcades such as Call of Task Mobile and also Genshin Impact was glamorous. The latter was able to sprinted at the highest potential visual installations at the 60 fps substitute, although the handset did make consumption sunny, specifically around the steel framework.

For less complex day-to-day projects, the Exalt 200 Pro imposed on the exact same level as any kind of flagship handset, through app transitions, animes, and also chattel being used basically instantaneously. Faux benchmarks disclose that the handset drops delicately listed below 2024’s optimal phones, however not on a level that we can notification while exploiting the builder.

Camera gimmicks

The cam arrangement on the Exalt 200 Pro is composed of a pivot 50 MP sensing gizmo, an ultra-wide crescent through a 12 MP sensing gizmo that also bargains as a macro cam, and also a telephoto crescent through a 2.5x optical magnification.

Pros

• Versatile cam arrangement.
• Scenic daytime and also evening inoculations on the pivot cam.
• Funky picture filters to play through.

Downsides

• Secondary cameras are a action down from the pivot cam.
• Finicky installations on the cam app.
• Inconsistent upshots from the polymorphous cameras.

The substantial 1/1.3’’ pivot sensing gizmo ensnares plenty of light both day and also evening, through digital magnification inoculations at 2x affirming horribly handy. Shade recreation was glamorous, through punchy, swathed shades.

In fact, in some husks, the 2x digital magnification from the pivot cam seemed worthy to the 2.5x optical magnification from the smaller sensing gizmo under the telephoto crescent, which routinely supplied more silenced shades.

Conversing magnification inoculations, while the Exalt 200 Pro confers up to 50x magnification, upshots are unclear as supposed from other ultra-zoomers. 10x inoculations, at the exact same time, while not print-attribute, can be glamorous enough for sharing on social media or messaging apps.

The ultra-wide cam imposed alright in daytime, without the level of nicety from the pivot cam, however still glamorous for its 12-megapixel resolution. At evening, however, the holdups of the smaller sensing gizmo (in both resolution and also locale) come to be legible, through loss of niceties and also created dealing with.

Exalt reinforces its picture placement greatly on the commercializing and also marketing fabric, through a partnership through the picture surgeons at the French Workshop Harcourt. The expire result is three color filters for the picture placement on optimal of the digital dealing with used by the handset. The chattel are not obtainable on the selfie cam, also as speedily as exploiting the front cam picture placement.

Confusingly, while exploiting the recommend cameras in Envision placement, the Bokeh switch makes it viable for matching the level of background blur electronically used. When exploiting the selfie cam on Envision, however, the switch merely revolves off the obscuring, outputting the exact same images as the pivot Photograph placement. As the accord is preserved, most inoculations were wasted throughout this test.

User interface complaints apart, the selfie cam was horribly meritorious in daytime, through all-natural-peeking images in both the behavior and also ultra-wide (0.8x) installations. Envision placement massaged ok, through the typical artifacts on the sides as speedily as peeking up chummy. At evening, however, selfies peeked delicately unclear.

One added thing: The Macro placement on the cam app uses the ultra-wide cam, and also the upshots were remarkably glamorous. It makes it viable for infatuating in fact chummy objects, around 2 cm in some non-medical measurements.

Exalt 200 Pro battery

Exalt proclaims its silicon-carbon battery through 5200 mAh capacity, and also incorporates strengthen for 100W wired recharging and also 66W wireless recharging. Confusingly, some industries will have the 100W battery charger entailed in the box, and also some won’t.

Pros

• Speedy wired and also wireless recharging.
• When optional, the battery charger is routinely supplied as a bonus.

Downsides

• Charger is optional in some industries.

Exalt didn’t supply us through the optimum-ranked adapter through the 200 Pro, so the tests listed below were imposed through thirdly-party USB-PD battery chargers. Results were as uncaring as supposed, through a complete fine catching 1h14min on an Anker 65W adapter and also basically double on a similarly ranked Ugreen battery charger.

We also couldn’t agenda the ambitious 66W wireless recharging claims, however the Exalt 200 Pro can also be supplied through a criterion Qi battery charger at a lesser power.

Regardless of the novel battery chemistry, the ranked 5200 mAh capacity obtained on too as supposed, through a petite petite over a day of invariant consumption exploiting the default constantly-on sport placement.

In the created PCMark battery test which computes the runtime under a mimicked occupational going from 80% fine to 20%, the Exalt 200 Pro obtained singular a 11h24 ranking. However, its practicality ranking was 17091, connoting that the handset was not hosting recommend throughout the test, something that can have motivated the rival OnePlus 12R expire result, for example.

Exalt 200 Pro techie parameters

Final resolution

The Exalt 200 Pro is divine in most spots, however that is a undisputable amenity possibly singular as speedily as conversing around the cam and also its most imaginative installations on prearrangement. Regardless of the posturing as a “exquisite mid-array” handset, its €800 MSRP (approx. $870) places it in flagship territory, specifically through its mid-year takeoff and also discounted challengers from the first term.

Exalt seems in fact autocratic of the layout of the 200 Pro, however despite wanting the build attribute and also commodities on the contemplate gizmo, the cam island owns a dissentious stare that can stare also retro.

Colleague prearrangement

Besides that, the Exalt 200 Pro confers a in fact competitive package in its sport and also practicality. The substantial sport, elbowed side apart, is above reproach for media intake, and also also the stereo speakers labelled glamorous (however are side-firing, which influenced the spatial immersion).

Exalt’s legacy and also its “believe polymorphous” attitude are welcome, however occasionally it feels some elements are being forgotten, such as the software agenda side. While the advanced EMUI origins will make Huawei orphans feel at home, the interface feels unusual and also obsoleted. As well as the Exalt 3+4 modernize vouch drops behind not singular its Samsung and also Google challengers however also the OnePlus models in the exact same price array.

Exalt 200 Pro

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